NFL: Esposa de quarterback do Detroit Lions revela tumor cerebral e terá que passar por cirurgia

O quarterback Matthew Stafford, do Detroit Lions, vive um drama familiar. Sua esposa, Kelly Stafford, anunciou nesta quarta-feira que terá que passar por uma cirurgia para retirar um tumor cerebral que foi descoberto recentemente.

Com um post no Instagram, ela explicou que o começou a sentir tonturas em janeiro, mas todas as visitas ao hospital terminavam com um diagnóstico normal. Após a recomendação feita pela equipe médica dos Lions, ela passou por uma ressonância magnética.

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This is a picture of Matthew & I the day we found out. I said I wanted this picture of us, so that the day this was all over, we could look back at this photo & remember. Within the last year, I began to notice things that I thought was just me getting older.. I would show my girls how to do a front roll or twirl in ballet class and immediately feel dizzy & off balance... Things that I had been doing my entire life were now, all of a sudden, difficult. The beginning of Jan was when I experienced my first spell of vertigo..It kept happening & then it happened while I was holding Hunter. Matthew took me straight to the ER. They checked vitals & bloodwork, all were fine.. Several vertigo spells later, Matthew's team doctor recommended we go get an MRI of my brain to rule everything major out. A few days later we were hit with the results. I had a tumor sitting on some of my cranial nerves. The medical term they used was an acoustic neuroma or vestibular schwannoma.. All I heard was brain tumor & that they had to do surgery to take it out.. so that is what we are going to do & we believe we found the best doctor to do it. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't completely terrified of brain surgery. I am. I am terrified of them opening my head, I'm terrified of losing my hearing, I'm terrified of losing facial function, I'm terrified of far worse things that could happen and I'm terrified that I won't take the time I need to recover because the guilt I might feel of being absent from my kids for too long.. I am telling y'all this to ask for prayers and support. Things to pray for: -calmness in these next 2 weeks as I know anxiety will run high in myself & my whole family leading up to the day of surgery. -that God be in the room with the surgeons & give them all the guidance, steadiness, & confidence they need. -my safety during and after surgery. -please pray for matthew as I know his nerves will be high during this surgery. I couldn't imagine being out in that waiting room. Thank u. Thank u for reading this novel. thank u for all your support and most importantly, thank u for your prayers.

Uma publicação compartilhada por Kelly Stafford (@kbstafford89) em 3 de Abr, 2019 às 7:27 PDT

Os resultados mostraram um neuroma acústico, que é um tumor benigno, em seus nervos cranianos. Ela afirmou estar “completamente aterrorizada” pela cirurgia e pediu orações.

"Estou aterrorizada por abrirem minha cabeça. Aterrorizada por perder minha audição. Aterrorizada por perder minhas funções faciais. Aterrorizada pelas coisas ainda piores que podem acontecer e aterrorizada por eu não ter o tempo necessário para me recuperar por causa da culpa que eu talvez sinta por estar longe das crianças por tanto tempo", escreveu.

O casal é muito querido em Detroit já que ambos atuam em causas sociais na região desde que Matthew foi recrutado pelos Lions como a 1ª escolha geral do draft de 2009.